Californian Congressman Doug LaMalfa
and 14 of his House peers have written a letter to the Department of
Homeland Security demanding to know why the federal agency is buying
so many rounds of ammunition and whether the purchases are part of a
deliberate attempt to restrict supply to the American people.

The DHS has committed to purchasing
around 2
billion rounds of ammunition over the course of the last year. Many
believe the purchases are exacerbating bullet shortages across the country,
supplies already strained by record sales prompted as a result of the
Obama administration's gun control agenda.

“The extraordinary level of ammunition
purchases made by Homeland Security seems to have, in states such as
my own, created an extreme shortage of ammunition to the point where
many gun owners are unable to purchase any,” LaMalfa wrote in
the letter.

“Are these purchases being conducted
in a manner that strategically denies the American people access to
ammunition,” the Congressman added.

According
to the Record Searchlight, it is not yet known whether the DHS has
responded to LaMalfa's letter. The report also quotes gun store owners
who are suspicious about the federal agency's huge ammo buys.

As
we reported yesterday, other members of Congress who have asked
similar questions to those posed by LaMalfa have been rebuffed.

“They have no answer for that
question. They refuse to answer to answer that,” Congressman Timothy
Huelscamp told WeAreChange reporters earlier this week, adding, "They
refuse to let us know what is going on, so I don’t really have
an answer for that. Multiple members of Congress are asking those questions.”

Huelscamp promised to keep asking and
even threatened to back a move to defund the agency if answers were
not forthcoming.

“I think Congress should ask the
Department about both of those issues and I would like a full explanation
as to why that has been done and I have every confidence that the oversight
committee ….should ask those questions,” said Lance, adding
that he shared a belief, “that Congress has a responsibility to
ask Secretary Napolitano as to exactly why these purchases have occurred.”

The AP report regurgitated claims by
the federal agency that the bullets were bought in bulk to save money
and were for training purposes only.
However, as former
Marine Richard Mason told reporters with WHPTV News in Pennsylvania
last week, hollow point bullets (which make up the majority of the DHS
purchases) are not used for training because they are more expensive
than standard firing range rounds.

“We never trained with hollow
points, we didn’t even see hollow points my entire four and a
half years in the Marine Corps,” Mason said.

After Sarah Palin expressed concern
about the issue on her official Facebook page, the Democratic Governors
Association (DGA), a lobbying organization which represents governors
affiliated with the Democratic Party, started
an ad campaign calling on Americans to sign a petition demanding
Palin be denounced for “extremist” rhetoric.

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